Minister, considering that you have been in the post for three months, I will put this question differently. [Laughter.] Would you, Minister, consider also engaging municipalities and the companies that have been engaged by municipalities to run what we call "rental stock"? This is because economic difficulties are not only affecting those who have bonds because they qualified, but they are also hitting hard on those who cannot access bonds and those who can also not access RDP giveaways, who are therefore put into rental stock.
Companies that have been engaged by municipalities have a different view and mandate from your department in terms of providing shelter. They are making people pay exorbitant amounts of money. For example in Payneville, Brickfield and Kliptown in Gauteng, you get people paying about R1 700 a month for a unit the same size and quality of an RDP house. Would you consider engaging them to make sure that we don't evict people as government? Thanks.